Writer Philip Hoare and artist Angela Cockayne are sharing their love of Melville's American classic with the Moby Dick Big Read, a project that releases one downloadable audio chapter of the book ...

On the weekend that “Moby-Dick” went live on the Web—a chapter a day read by a different person, each chapter accompanied by an original work of … ...

But there is another reference in the novel to the whale resembling a snow hill and that comes in the last line of the first chapter. Here Ishmael ponders why he is going on a whaling voyage.

She used her digital camera to film herself reading a chapter from “Moby-Dick,” the 1851 classic by Herman Melville, as part of an online Story Hour Series for the New Bedford Whaling Museum.